Live auction - Lot 933
[Nautical chart - Zeeland]
Beschrijvinghe vande Zeeusche eijlanden, soe die op hare strome geleghen zijn, met een deel vande Zee Custen van Vlaenderen enn Hollant. Insularum Zelandiae [...].
Amsterdam, 1583 [after 1586]
Hammer price: €
1.700
€ 1.000 / 1.200
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Lot description
Engr., 32,7 x 52,4 cm (light trace of fold).
Underlaid with thin Japanese paper. Hinged at upper edge. Under passe-partout. Good copy.
Very rare nautical map of Zeeland, oriented to the southeast, from 's-Gravenhage/Scheveningen until Nieuwpoort, depicting all the islands of Zeeland and Flemish localities as Bruges, Damme, Knokke, Blankenberge, Ostend, Middelkerke, Lombardsijde, beautifully engraved by Joannes van Doetecum. 2nd state from a Latin ed. ("Speculum nauticum super navigatione [...]") of the first ever sea atlas "Spieghel der Zeevaerdt [...]", text on verso (leaf 3, no pagination).
Ref. Koeman IV:Wag [3b]. - Not in Zelandia comitatus.